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Space
Space
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Robert Z. Pearlman

Huge Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL cargo ship arrives at space station

A large robotic arm reaches and grapples a silver-cylindric spacecraft with round solar arrays outside a space station.

The S.S. Steven R. Nagel has arrived at the International Space Station.

The second of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to deliver supplies to the orbiting outpost, the vehicle was captured by the space station's Canadarm2 robotic arm at 1:20 p.m. EDT (1720 GMT) on Monday (April 13).

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